A 42-year-old man already facing a life term for raping three women in Sacramento County nearly 10 years ago faces another 25 years to life next month when he is sentenced for raping a teenager in Anaheim in 1997, an Orange County prosecutor said today.

George Eugene Cross was found guilty Wednesday of raping a 17-year-old girl in her Anaheim apartment, Deputy District Attorney Robert Mestman said. Cross, who is scheduled to be sentenced March 17, faces 25 years to life in prison, Mestman said.

Cross was already serving a 55-year to life in prison term for raping three women in Sacramento in 2002, Mestman said. Cross was convicted of sexual battery in Long Beach in 1995, Mestman said.

Cross knocked on the door of the Anaheim apartment where the then-17- year-old victim lived Dec. 30, 1997, and talked his way in by saying the girl’s mother owed him money, Mestman said. Investigators do not know how he got the mother’s name, but he did not know the victim or her mother, Mestman said.

Cross choked the victim and forced her to undress before he raped her, Mestman said.

The case went cold until 2003 when his DNA was entered into a national database because of his rape conviction in Sacramento County, Mestman said.

If Cross ever finishes serving his sentence in Sacramento County, he would begin serving his time for the Orange County conviction, Mestman said.